THE PHILIPPINES: Candidate for Pallbearer

"If he were my father," said a
physician, "I wouldn't care if he were President or not. I'd tell him
to relax and live longer." But President Elpidio Quirino of the
Philippine Republic was in no mood to relax. During the past three
weeks, plainly showing the strain of a gout condition and the gastric
ulcer operations he underwent in July at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins
Hospital, 62-year-old Quirino has campaigned with a martyr's zeal to
save his administration from overthrow by former Defense Minister Ramon
Magsaysay at the polls next month. "I...